Plicatula subgurgitis Böse, 1910

Remarks

• Collector:    Keith Minor
• Formation:  Washita Group, Weno Formation
• Location:     Tarrant County, TX

General Info

Synonyms (other reports in the literature)

• "Cat's Paw Clam"
• 1910 Plicatula subgurgitis Böse
• 1960 Plicatula subgurgitis Böse; Perkins
• 1982 Plicatula subgurgitis Boese; Offeman et al.
• 1989 Plicatula subgurgitis Boese; Finsley

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Top of the Washita Group, Grayson Formation of North Texas
• Upper Washita Group, Pawpaw Formation of North Texas
• Upper Washita Group, Weno Formation of North Texas
• Basal Washita Group, Duck Creek Formation of North Texas
• Top of the Fredericksburg Group, Kiamichi Formation of North Texas
• Fredericksburg Group, Marys Creek Marl Member of the Goodland Formation of North Texas
• Fredericksburg Group, Benbrook Limestone Member of the Goodland Formation, North Texas

Age

• Plicatula subgurgitis Böse ranges from about the Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) carbonarium (Gabb) zone to the Budaiceras hyatti (Shattuck) zone, middle Albian to lower Cenomanian time (~104−97 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Denton County, Texas
• Tarrant County, Texas

Remarks

         For identification and descriptions, see:

• Böse, E.  1910.  Monografía Geológica y Paleontológica del Cerro de Muleros, Cerca de Ciudad Juárez, Estado de Chihuahua y Descripción de la Fauna Cretácea de la Encantada Placer de Guadalupe, Estado de Chihuahua, México.  Boletín del Instituto Geológico de México 25.